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iTether App Offers Internet Tethering On Your iPhone for One Time Fee
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Oh wow! Excellent. Also that you got it before it was pulled.
Personally I hope it was only pulled for the license check nonsense. I suspect there were a TON of complaints about that--especially when it did not work.
Michael
Can't Get Through
I cannot get through to purchase it on the U.S. App Store on any of my devices.
I cannot get through to purchase it on the U.S. App Store on any of my devices.
How does AT&T tell if you're using tethering apps?
I've read somewhere that tethering apps use a different APN than what cellular data uses. And this is what ATT is cracking down on. Anyone know how iTether pulls its data?? I have the unlimited data plan and use a LOT of data (streaming radio at work) and have never, ever received any type of letter/email/message on my data usage. I haven't noticed any type of throttling either.
So can anyone confirm how ATT cracks down on tethering??
I've read somewhere that tethering apps use a different APN than what cellular data uses. And this is what ATT is cracking down on. Anyone know how iTether pulls its data?? I have the unlimited data plan and use a LOT of data (streaming radio at work) and have never, ever received any type of letter/email/message on my data usage. I haven't noticed any type of throttling either.
So can anyone confirm how ATT cracks down on tethering??
It's working fine on AT&T. Posting this reply on my AIr, tethered to my iPhone 4S.
Michael
Customers who use tethering will on average use more data per month than customers who don't use tethering, and therefore are more expensive.
You have a contract that gives you a certain amount of data per month. The carrier figures out how much data people on that contract use ever month on average, and that determines what these people cost the carrier per month, and then they add some profit margin, and that is what you are charged. If people who use tethering are added to the mix, then the average cost to the carrier, and therefore the average monthly charge go up for everybody. The way it works now, only people using tethering pay for the extra cost, and everybody who doesn't use tethering is quite happy with that.
You don't pay for 2GB of data. You pay for the average amount of data that all the customers on the "up to 2GB, no tethering" plan are using, which is a lot less than 2GB. If AT&T sold an "up to 2GB with tethering" plan, then you would pay for the average amount of data that all the customers on the "up to 2GB with tethering" plan are using, which would be more data and therefore more expensive.
There's a problem with that. AT&T will not say "oh, you were naughty, now we charge you for tethering". AT&T will say "we notice you are tethering, so we put you on to the appropriate plan unless you stop doing it". So the carrier told you that it wasn't allowed, and they will probably be able to claim that any future tethering means you agree being put on the tethering plan. At that point you can't claim anymore that you thought it was allowed. For charges for past tethering you may be right, but they are not doing that.
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Well, I don't believe everything I read either. That is why I asked if anyone here has read an EULA. Also, you have no more evidence that data does not go through their systems than those that says it does. How do you know the systems are not bogged down because of tethered data? I don't personally care about data going through their systems. It is the user's choice to be fine with that. I just hate companies that collect information to sell to marketing research, for using a piece of their software you've paid for. Regardless, if you would have read my earlier post, I already have Handylight and from what I have read so far on this thread about iTether, I don't find it to be anything that I would use over handylight.
Because bits used by a computer are more expensive than bits used by an iPhone, right?
Bits are bits, whether used on a computer or an iPhone. Let us use these bits the way WE WANT.
Actually I do. It's rather trivial.
lol... I bought handylight and it is so far below iTether the very mention of it is laughable.
Michael
And if I remember correctly, you had to press the colored bars in a certain sequence to even activate tethering. No such process needed to use iTether.
Whew! Got it this morning, just installed the dmg file from a mirror (previous post: http://patjem.nl/tether-iphonedmg-app or check the facebook site)
It works!!
It works!!
Yes, yes it is.
Just like downloading a Disney movie from TPB is "stealing", even though it isn't available for sale any more.
Or photocopying a book that isn't in print any more.
Yeah, with e-distribution, it's different, because at least with a movie or book, there is a secondary market for used copies; but such is the life of e-distribution. Glad I got it, hopefully it just got yanked due to the "disallowed third-party licensing", and when Tether gets that removed, it'll go back on.
But from what I can tell, the actual operation of it doesn't violate any of Apple's terms. Maybe your carriers, but not Apple's.
thanks. i installed itunes on a thumb drive and it loaded. rebooted my pc w/o the thumb drive or itunes installled on the pc and it works!
Is anyone else having an issue where "the application tproxy has unexpectedly quit" when they open the tether application on their Mac? I cannot get the program I work and suspect that is why. Any suggestions? I have tied reinstalling the computer software to no avail.